These 8 1/2 by 11 inch letters can be used for "Making Words"
activities in kindergarten. The vowels are printed on red
cardstock and the consonants on white cardstock. Children sit in a
circle and are each given a letter. The teacher can ask several
students with letters to come to the front and make a word.
The children take turns coming up to the front and changing a letter
or two in the existing word to make different words.

For example: change "cat" to "hat" to "hit" to"pit" to
"fit" to "fin" to "fun" ...etc.

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Here is a copy
of the alphabet song that can be reprinted for children to trace
over the letters and then add to poetry binders. Prior to giving the
poem to children it should be a shared reading in a pocket chart or
on the overhead.

Doretta Lambert uses this poem as a shared reading to reinforce
letter recognition, teach the terms "before" and "after" and the
sight words, I, am, the, my, and what. She puts different
letters in the blank before each reading.

Using the Alphabet Song for shared reading gives children
opportunities to gain confidence as a reader while teaching alphabet
recognition and concepts of print. This is from Colleen Cook's
classroom.

This shared reading from Celeste Peel's room is a follow up to the big
book, Chicka, Chicka Boom, Boom. The letters are written on a sentence
strip and drug through a slot during repeated readings.

An easy center from Doretta Lambert's room is putting a sentence strip
above a dry erase board and letting children practice writing the
letters.